02/19/2026
"At times, anger rises with a force that can feel startling, even dangerous, as if something within us has come to disrupt the fragile order we have worked so hard to maintain.
Yet what appears as threat is often an ancient intelligence returning to the surface of the body and the heart.
Anger is not only the cry of an exiled part seeking mercy, though it is certainly that. It is also a current of life energy carrying clarity, boundary, and fierce protection for what is sacred.
When this fire is rejected, repressed, or acted out unconsciously, it becomes destructive. But when it is met in embodied presenceโfelt in the belly, the heart, the throat, and held with breath, curiosity, and careโit begins to reveal a different nature.
The same energy that once threatened to overwhelm becomes a source of guidance.
Heat becomes discernment. Intensity becomes wisdom. Fire becomes a fierce compassion in service of the soul.
This is the alchemical middle where we neither deny anger nor fuse with it, but allow it to unfold within the steady field of awareness.
Here, anger is no longer an enemy to overcome, but a sacred force asking to participate in our wholeness.
And in being welcomed into the body with love, what first appeared as danger is revealed as clarityโan intelligence that protects life, restores boundary, and helps the heart remember its own strength."
- Matt Licata
